The mess tin of a dead enemy
In May 1945, Felix Kolmer escaped from the labour camp in Friedland. Together with some other prisoners, he managed to get to Choceň, where they impatiently waited for the moment they would be able to go home by train. Felix Kolmer wanted to join a unit which was guarding the train station in Choceň as a volunteer, but given the fact that he had spent the past months in concentration camps, he was not recognized capable to fight with a weapon. On the night of May 8th 1945, the train station in Choceň was attacked by an armored train of the retreating German and Hungarian armies and fighting had begun. Felix Kolmer recollects the following about that night: “I hid under a bench, but this Hungarian had noticed me and started to run towards me with a bayonet. He was two or three steps away from me, and I knew that I could only expect the end. Suddenly somebody fired at him, he got a bullet in his head and fell to the ground. His mess tin fell from his hand and slowly rolled towards me. I have the mess tin until this day.” At the train station in Choceň Felix Kolmer was once again very lucky to survive, after having experienced the concentration camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Friedland, but this time as a free man.
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